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Note to Editors: Copies of the complete report are available on the Web at www.centerwest.org or by calling (303) 492-4007. The American West may be renowned for its "boom and bust" economy, but during the last two centuries it's been vastly more boom than bust, according to a new report from the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

PharmOut, a team of MBA students from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder, took first place in the "Lightning Round" of the University of Oregon's business plan competition. Twenty-one business schools from throughout the United States participated in the April contest. PharmOut's business model would help the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry by enabling companies to outsource their process development and clinical manufacturing needs.

A University of Colorado at Boulder law professor known for championing American Indian and western environmental legal issues has received the university's largest single honor for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize. Charles Wilkinson, 60, will receive the prize, which carries a $20,000 award, at CU-Boulder's summer graduation ceremony where he will deliver the commencement address.

The CU Parents Association has awarded $40,000 in scholarships to 40 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to Peter Simons, director of the Office of Parent Relations. The scholarship awards are merit-based and are presented each spring. Scholarships are made possible by CU Parents Association fundraising efforts. Interested students must complete and submit an application by early March.

Forrest Garrison and Jessica Garrison, two of Colorado's first set of quadruplets, will graduate from college May 10. Forrest Garrison will receive a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Jessica Garrison will receive a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Colorado State University's College of Business.

When University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law Registrar Barbara Leggate takes the stage during the school's commencement ceremony, it won't be as a marshal, something she has done for the past 25 years. Instead, Leggate, who will be retiring this year and has the school's Humanitarian Award named after her, will be recognized for her years of service with a Lifetime Humanitarian Award.

Jessica Sucherman, a senior in the Undergraduate Academy, an intellectual community of academically motivated students, has been named recipient of the Karen Raforth Scholarship. The scholarship is administered by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Certificate Program and provides a financial award to a graduate or undergraduate student at CU-Boulder who best exemplifies steadfastness, visibility and effectiveness in the quest for gay rights and the rights of all marginalized people.

The Sewall Residential Academic Program, in which every student living in that CU-Boulder residence hall takes classes in the same area of study, will change its focus from American Studies to the American West during the 2002-03 academic year, program director and history Professor William Wei has announced. "We will spend the next year making the transition from the theme of American Studies to the theme of the American West," Wei said.

Matt Brown, a doctoral candidate in sociology, has been named recipient of the first annual $1,000 scholarship sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Alumni Association.

Nobel laureate and University of Colorado at Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman will give the commencement address at the spring ceremony on Friday, May 10, at 9:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium. Wieman, with Senior Scientist Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for their landmark 1995 creation of the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter created by cooling atoms to a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.